** spoiler alert ** Like A Summer to Remember, I found Slightly Married to be just an average book; not particulary bad, but not particularly good. I've read three books by Balogh now and something has always bothered me about them after finishing. I couldn't figure out what it was until reading this book: the books are all rather emotionless and passionless.

As I'm reading them, I just don'e really feel anything. The characters are simply there. They exist, go about life, but they rarely evoke much emotion in the reader. I never really connect with them. The stories are decent enough, and the characters have much potential, but Balogh just does not seem to have that knack for bringing real emotion and passion into her books. At times, everything feels rather cold and clinical.

While reading Slightly Married, it never really seemed like Eve and Aidan fell in love with each, but more decided that they were...which is a bit unromantic. There just was not any...softness?...to the romance. I did like Eve, though. She was a good character. I've found myself not particularly fond of the Bedwyn's, though. Balogh's development of the main family of the series baffles me as it did in A Summer to Remember. She's made them so cold-hearted, grim, and uninspiring. It's confusing - when she's trying to entice readers to read future books in the series - that she would portray them that way. It wasn't until halfway through the book that she gave any redeeming qualities to any of them. It's hard to feel any love for the Bedwyn's though.

Even though I've bad-mouthed the book a bit, it really wasn't that bad. I didn't slog slowly through it, I just wasn't enthralled by any part. I prefer books that have more emotion and substance to them.